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Quiche Bretonne

This quiche from Brittany has a puff-pastry base topped with an assortment of fish and shellfish with a classic quiche filling.

After baking in a hot oven, the crusty pastry is a great foil for the moist filling with all its seafood flavours.

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Last modified on: April 17^th 2022

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For 2 quiches, you will need:

1 1 lb + 1.6 oz Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
2 1 lb + 5.1 oz mussels
3 7.0 oz dry white wine
4 2 sprigs parsley
5 14.1 oz fresh tuna
6 14.1 oz Fish
7 1 lb + 5.1 oz cooked prawns
8 8.5 oz spring onion (scallion)
9 8 tablespoons olive oil
10 7.0 oz dry white wine
11 Quiche filling mixture
12 salt
13 pepper

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
51 min.	49 min.	1 hour 40 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Roll out 1 lb + 1.6 oz Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) (if not ready-rolled), line the tart tin or mould and prick all over the bottom.

Set aside in the fridge.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Cook 1 lb + 5.1 oz mussels in 7.0 oz dry white wine with 2 sprigs parsley.

Stop cooking as soon as the mussels have opened.

Note: You can also use left-over mussels marinière.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Shell the mussels and set aside.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Cut 14.1 oz fresh tuna into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cut 14.1 oz Fish – ccoley (Pollock) here – into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 10 min.

Shell the 1 lb + 5.1 oz cooked prawns.

Set aside.

Stage 7 - 4 min.

Prepare and finely chop 8.5 oz spring onion (scallion).

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Pour 8 tablespoons olive oil into a large sauté pan on high heat.

When the oil is good and hot, add the onion, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute without colouring.

Stage 9 - 7 min.

Add the diced fish and prawns, and brown for 1 or 2 minutes.

Add the mussels and 7.0 oz dry white wine, then leave to reduce until the liquid has almost completely evaporated.

Leave to cool.

Stage 10 - 4 min.

Prepare Quiche filling mixture.

Stage 11 - 1 min.

Spread the pieces of fish, mussels and prawns in the the pastry case.

Stage 12 - 2 min.

Pour the quiche mixture over the top.

Stage 13 - 40 min.

Bake low in the oven for about 40 minutes, checking the colour towards the end.

Can be eaten warm or cold.

Remarks

You can vary this recipe to suit your own tastes or the time of year. Do try to use fish that's in season, as it is often cheaper. This is a good opportunity to use cheaper varieties.

Keeping

Several hours in the fridge. After this, it will still be good, but less crisp.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,065 Kcal or 17,019 Kj	493 gr	243 gr	515 gr
203 %	190 %	23 %	78 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
95 Kcal or 398 Kj	12 gr	6 gr	12 gr
5 %	4 %	1 %	2 %

Per quiche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,033 Kcal or 8,512 Kj	247 gr	121 gr	258 gr
102 %	95 %	11 %	39 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Sulfites, Mollusc, Fish, Shellfish, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 2 quiches : 23.39 €
Per quiche : 11.70 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Quiche filling mixture: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Two-cheese quiche, Thin endive tart, bread-crust quiche, Leek and fresh tuna tart, Filo leeks and cheese tart, ... All
	Mussels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Curried mussels with cabbage, Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup, Mussels with arroz negro, Mussels with beurre d'escargot, Paimpol salad, ... All
	Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Scandinavian cocktail, Surprise eggs, Seafood rice salad, Potatoes with prawns, Avocado with Sautéed Prawns , ... All
	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apple semelles (flat apple tarts), Olive twists, Langoustine and leek tarts, Tomato and courgette tart, Tomato tart, ... All

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